http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/ CFZ Volunteers Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:02:24 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/867 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/867 We are pretty well snowed in, and the small children of the village are tobogganing down the hill outside our dining room windows. I have no intention of Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:22:33 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/866 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/866 Good morning campers. It is very snowy and Biggles has already eaten several snowballs. We have burst pipes - nothing too serious - but Graham has gone into Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:03:36 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/865 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/865 Dale Drinnon, bless him, pointed out that today's blog details hadn't been posted to Usenet. The Lord alone knows why because I sent the e-mail, but both the Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:13:18 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/864 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/864 It is a beautiful, if cold, day. Oll is back and things are returning to normal. The last of our colony of African striped mice has died at the age of two Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:09:48 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/863 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/863 The year is still young enough for me to feel enthusiastic about it. The sun is shining brightly and the snow is still lying crisp on the ground. Oll comes Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:46:16 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/862 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/862 Well, another year is over. It has been a strange one with far more conflict than I would have lined. However, a new one starts tomorrow with all the Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:12:41 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/861 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/861 There is something particularly cheering about the smell of a log fire, even when one has a cold. This is the grey and wet part of winter which is even nastier Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:35:37 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/860 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/860 It is very much a day of contrasts, of good news and bad news, of yin and yan. If you wanna know why I suggest that you read the blogs: CFZ: The new CFZ Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:05:34 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/859 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/859 I should probably warn you that there may be some disruption both to the blog and to the website over the next 24 hours. Also apologies for the lateness of Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:43:06 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/858 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/858 So its all over.. almost. I went back to work yesterday redesigning the website (something I seem to do every Christmas), and I have been manfully resisting Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:13:56 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/857 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/857 I have always rather liked Boxing Day. It is a day to put one's feet up and do very little. I intend to read my Christmas books, eat cake and perchance to doze Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:20:37 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/856 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/856 Happy Christmas everyone, and thank you for supporting us through this last year CHRISTMAS: Jon's Christmas message to the Bloggo readership Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:24:55 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/855 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/855 It is cold and the garden looks like a rather sordid Christmas Card. Biggles is digging in the snow, and the rabbit is still AWOL. A scene of domestic bliss Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:46:15 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/854 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/854 The lane outside is as slippery as glass, but it is raining so we hope it will have melted by early afternoon so we can go to Asda and buy some (non-festive) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:11:26 GMT Jonathan Downes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/853 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFZ_Volunteers/message/853 I actualy thought that today was the solstice, but it turns out to have been yesterday. Never mind. OIll goes back to Wales today, and Graham is chasing an